Hi Taz, thanks for filing the bug. You can reduce the zoom level in the left pane in your example, and I believe things will look fine for you, you can even set that as the default zoom for the site (Ctrl-minus).

I'm checking with our design team to make sure it fits in their guidelines and hopefully we can give it a slightly better behavior at your target width.

Yes, unfortunately, the architecture of the site is to pre-render all manpages (which are by nature a fixed line width) and store them on disk and serve them as static files. Patches welcome to fix that behavior! I had a thought about still doing that pre-rendering phase so that search would still work, but *also* generating the page dynamically on request to adjust the width for the target resolution, but haven't implemented it yet.

There is a temporary fix to at least make it not horrible and make ctrl-minus more useable that has been approved that I attached to the bug. We are also looking at a better design to fix it more fully for the future. I'll leave the bug open until that better fix lands.

I used to read man pages on the web instead of the Linux terminal. But, now this new "design" is so terrible, that I really need to ask: "What is the rationale behind this and how can I switch back to the old UI?"

@fedkad, there are no plans to make a way to switch themes. If you have something specific, please bring it up in a new bug. And "it's terrible", is very hard to fix as the old theme was replaced since likely someone thought it was terrible. :)